MR ARCHER DONS THE ROBE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17525, 30 April 1925, Page 10

MR ARCHER DONS THE ROBE.

SURPRISING RESULT IN MAYORAL CONTEST. ONLY FIVE LABOUR MEN ON NEW COUNCIL The municipal elections yesterday resulted in the Rev .1. K. Archer being elected Mayor by a large majority over Mr .1. A. Fleslier, the present Mayor. Mr Archer received 9069 voles, 1116 more than Mr Fleslier, who received 7953 votes. Mr .1. \V. Beanland came next with 1109 votes, and Mr J. Hamlet last with 1 I 12 voles. Mi Archer is the first minister of the Church, and the first Labour candidate, to be elected Mayor of Christchurch. It is claimed that he is the first Labour candidate elected Mayor of any large city in New Zealand on a straight Labour ticket. Mr 1). M'Lareu was elected Mayor of Wellington some years ago, but it is stated he had a Labour-Liberal vote. Figures available last night show that the Citizens’ Association will have eleven members on the new City Council, and the Labour Party five. On the old council, the Citizens' Association had nine members, and Labour six, and there was one Independent. The total votes at the Mayoral election numbered almost 23,000.

THE MAYORALTY. MR ARCHER'S SUCCESS. There vas a very heavy poll for the An Gallery No. 1 ... Art Gallery No. 2 Art Gallery No- -‘1 Knox School .... Aberdeen Street Foresters’ Hall .... Orange Hall S; John’s School .... St Andrew’s School St Michael’s School St Asaph Street .... Hibernian Hall Fitzgerald Avenue Kilniore Street and Fitzgerald Are. SLarnnore "Road and River Road Methodist Schoolroom. Stanmore Roa S.A. Hall. Fitzgerald Avenue L inwood Tiihrary Rolleston Street .... f. in wood Avenue .... Swann’s Road .... YYoodham Road .... >t Chad’s Schoolroom . Pumping Station Levdon Street .... Charles and Grafton Streets Aldwin’s Road .... Woolston Council Caambers find lev Street . Merivale Lane .... T? it rrh v street .... St Andrew’s Square Paoanui Road .... Brown’s Road • Town Hall. Papanui. Cranford Street - Shirlev Mills Road . . - Madras Street North . • Randall Street . • . Rarbadoes Street and Dean Street Caledonian Road St Alban" Library Lincoln Road .... Dickens Street . Se.lvvn and Harman Streets Se’wyn and South Crescent Road Sprcvdon Council Chambers Milton Street .... Battersea Street .... I .awson Street .... Sydenham Park . • • Rcckon.ham Hall .... HrrVrr.hani Park Wilsons Road .... Waltham Library Shakespeare Road Palsgrave Street .... < ipatva Totals Majority for Arch

THE SPEECHES. Ihe candidates for the Mayoralty spoke from the balcony above the no - i'''o at the Municipal Chamber.-. Tc is ia-M-ly high, but this enabled people near the outskirts of the crowd to bear ‘••Mtc-r than if the candidates had rpoken from the temporary platform m front of the result board. Til E NEW MAYOR'S WISH. TO BE KNOWN AS A MAN AMONGST MEN. M- \rrher was received with a great demon ”.st ; n. in which no hostile ■,'iz roticeable. The dominant note wa- cheers, which were repeated -t.'i n sjkl again. 11° :aid;I wish to express my very hearty • ; v -n-.: to sll who vote 1 , for the Labour ■ anclidatr.. ifliers.) 1 lake it that :,ivs. O-T. is a victor.'- for the Labour Pa>*ty. and secondly for me. »Cheers.) i wish to thank, also, the great array of ladies and gentlemen who worked for us. and the returning officer and other officers connected with the * lection. I do not wish to mention parti- ■ ularlv anv names, except to refer to the members of Parliament who stood Behind me from first to last, particua.r- Mr Sullivan (cheers L who has done an enormous amount of organising. and Mr W. T. Green, who has been ; v.r«me;ous worker behind the scenes, i A voice What about Beanland?) ' It N too carl}’ to say what the re-v.-.JI b“ in regard to *T.e City • oun- d. the Hospital Board and the lirrhoi:: Board, but I hope that when all the figures are up, we shall have not ~niv a Labour Mayor, but also a Lab- . ur ('ouned (Cheers.) "As to the future. T have, J must admit, a great sense of responsibility, i realise now that, although T am a •■■•’.ember of the Labour Party and shall be true to our principles as a party, for ■;pr next two years T represent the city (cheers) — and it. will be my earnest, endeavour to hold office this year in a .v or thy manner. “ I til an k you for your reception, and I can tell you this: that during the next two years, although I shall be .Mayor of the city. I wish to be known only as a man amongst men. That is all I wish to say, except that, while I am highly gratified at my own success, 1 wish, as a councillor, to express my—what shall T say?—my sympathy with my fellow councillors in their defeat.” ({ ‘Leers. > Ml iwlir. ai. .ailed for Hi rev cheers

Mayoralty- the number of rotes recorded being well over l'-2.UUO. It vas early evident from the progress returns that the contest would he between the retiring Mayor and the Labour candidate. Following are details of the voting:

ior 1 ‘ the first Labour Mayor of Cbristf . bureh." and these were given h*>art- , i'.i . while many bands were waved. RECEPTION TO MR PLESHER. j A HOSTILE DEMON STRATI ON. j Mr Plesher was received with a | mixed demonstration, arid with ‘* boos” ' and cat-caMs reminiscent of old-time \ elections, when rougher manners prej vailed. j Air Archer stepped forward again a p.d said. " 1 am sure that in this large crowd we shall. always in Christchurch, have thorough ra r play.’’ < Cheers.» Mr Fleshei; began : •* I always thought a Christchurch crowd had a sense of fair play." This was greeted with an outburst of hostile feeling, which was renewed several times, while several sections of the crowd counted the speaker out. as at a boxing match. "If vou don’t want to hear me. I don’t want to speak." Mr Plesher said. “ All I want to say is this ” The conclusion of the sentence was prevented by a further demonstration. One of Mr Flesher's supporters : “ Go on, the reporters are taking it Mr Flesher continued: “ Well, first. T wish to congratulate Air Archer. I Cheers.) Tie occupies an honourable position. T am sure that he will find that the responsibilities of office are many, and will not find it easy to do the right thing to everybody. T wish also to say that T have no regrets in connection with the election. (Voices: Oh. oh." and laughter.) T have (ought a clean fight all through. T thank those who voted for me and those who worked for me. You have to remember that. Mr Archer is a minority representative.’’ (Groans ami hostile demonstration.! The crowd refused to hear Mr Flesher any further, and he concluded, speaking to the reporters “Two years hence probably, the tables will be turned in a straight issue between one section and the other, and it is easy cm' COUNCIL CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION WINS ELEVEN SEATS. The election of councillors resulted in the return of eleven nominees of

the. Citizen?’ Association and ti\e Labour candidates. The .polling was exceptionally heavy, the lowest unsuccessltd candidate securing over 8000 votes. Of the sitting councillors who sought re-election Councillor A. Williams f Citizens’ candidate), and Councillor A' - II Winsoi I the only iridependent) tailed to secure a place Oi the members of the previous council Messrs .1. Anderson "\A>. E .1 Howard M.P, orm 11. I Armstrong. M.i-t.did not seek re-election, while Mr Beanland was a candidate lo.r the Mayoralty. The new members will be: -Messrs D. it. Sulbvaa M.P. (Lab.). A. F fare-,-, A D. Ford, c. T. Asehman (C.A.) ,T. H. Butterfield (Lab). AV. .). Sim and .1 X. THi Feu (C.A.) The-, olci members re-elected are: —Messrs (.'. P. Agar. O. Anderson. K. 11. Andrews, A W Beaven, W. E. Leadiev, A. M Kellar 1 ( .A.). Airs E. M ( i>mbs. the Kev Clyde Carr and F. R. Cooke (L.L The following arc details: ELECTED. D G. Sullivan (L) . . 12.730 Airs E. R. M Combs (L) 11.7.30 A. W. Beaven (C.A.) . . II.(HO ME Lcadley (C.A.) 1|,581 E. JI. Andrews (C.A.i . 11.538 p . ;Ag a r 1 C.A. ) . 11.010 O. AN. b. Anderson (('.A.) . 10.503 A. F. Carey (C.A.) . . 10 745 r: L - l 'arr <L) 10,258 A. M'Kellar (C.A.i . . 10.258 C. T. Asehman "'.A.' . 10.253 A. D. Ford (C.A.» 10 252 J. X. Du Feu (C.A. > . 0.853 F. R. Cooke (L) . 0.004 T. H. Butterfield <L' 0 584 W. # J... Sim (C.A.) . . . 0.575 XOT ELECTED. G. T.. Owen (L.> . . 9.545 R. B. J. Dailey (C.A.' . 0.475 A. Williams (C.A.' . . 0.375 G. T. Thurston <L> . 8 957 W. I-I. Winsor (Ind.) . . 8.708 ' Renn (L.) . . - 8.629 J\. Macfariane (L.i . . 8.558 W. .1, Green (L.) . 8 485 R. Brooks (L.) . 8 440 >L Parian© (L.) . . 8.337 D. Ruwsc (C.A.) . 8.153 Informal . 585 MR BEANLAXD S COMPLAINT. CRITICISES THE CTTIZ EX'S’ ASSOCIATION'. Mr Beanland, who had a r.ception almost as cordial as Mr Archer's, congratulated the new Mayor, and said that lie would like to be in Mr Archer's position, but he had to fight a combina--1 on such as never had been put lorward in Christchurch before, lie continued: “ When a single section o£ the people combine to defeat an honourable promise such as was given to me—(cheers)—l say it serves them right. (Cheers and voices: “Rub it m. rub it in,” and “ Give it to them hard.’’) Mr. Beanland: “I sincerely thank all who voted and worked for me, and if the papers did nut throw dirt as they do things might have been different.. J have served this city for a good many years. I have done my duty faithfully—(hear, hear) —butj as 1 have said, the combination was too strong-' Tf certain people had kept their promises, perhaps 1 would be in AJr Archer’s position. At the same time, T congratulate him, and Tin sorry for. the Citizens’ Association.” Mr .Hamlet, who was loudly -cheered. said that it would show‘the poorest spirit to grouch and grumble. Mr Archer bad had a very fine win. The speaker .stood- as an independent, and independence meant liberty. He had enjoyed every minute of. the contest. He had many pleasant reminiscences, and not the least pleasaut were those associated with the present contest. THE NEW COUNCIL.

HARBOUR BOARD, SITTING MEMBERS RETURNED. 'There were ?«*ven candidate?; for the Harbour Board, and ihe sitting mon-l-ei were returned for the four varan-<-ie'- Details of the polling are: H Holland " ,\ i ,12.537 Dr H T 1 Thacker and.) 12:255 i H I Armstrong. MF’ < [.. ) ... 11.7361 < ;*o Sroi i " A ) 10.544 1 (Elected) 1 1 K Ha' ward (C.A.) 0,622 I c» T Thurston < L.) .5.206 J Hamlet « hid.) 4.801

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HOSPITAL BOARD. MRS HERBERT TOPS POLL. Ihr v\ hole ol the eight retiring members oi the Hospital Board laced i tie poll, and oi these six were elected, ihe t"o unsuccessful members being Messrs J. W. Baty and A. T. Smith. Tlicit* places un the hoard were taken bv Mr- M’Combs and the Bov Frank Rule. Mrs A. I - . Herbert '‘C.A.) .... It.l'.h Rev I. K Archer <LabJ Vi.tdl Mr; E. M’Combs (Lab.) 12.100 Rev r Rule <C..\.) 11.532 ii IfOtlcv (• A - 11.597 \Y. E Lea cl lev (C.A.) 11,042 Mrs E. A M. Roberts (CA.) .. 10.575 Rev C. Carr (Lab.) 9.-SSO Mrs T. Green (Lab.) 9,518 I. \Y. Batv (C.A.) -8.876 C,. T Thurston (Lab.) 8.594 A. T. Smith (C.A. I 8.200 J. R. Devereux (hood. Reform/ 5.741 J. Hamlet; (Independent) .... 1.492 A poll was taken tor the election oi a member to represent; the combined lisinVi > ol: Sunnier. New Brighton and Lvitclton. and resulted : V. (.. Norton . . . 2.299 I). MRac , * * 1.192 I nformal , , , 1(!9

OTHER RESULTS. RICCARTON. Tlier- wok no conlcu for Mayor in • "• 1 > car tun. Bu.iyugb. .M ,• H. y. >. j I'-.iiig, elected unopposed. There * iii*> not been a. Mayoral election tor nniii v yea i>. Thirteen candidates stood im the eight scats on the council. 11c- • Tvitaiincr the tirst ballot for the I' l '•* years. 'I he polling resulted in ihc u hoi. ol ihc Citizens’ Association :n !ict being elected. Following are the figure* : - H. W. Wis.e (C- A .) , . 793 I M. Ford (C.A.) . ,791. A. F. Fisher (C.A.) , .771 A. F. Steere (C.A.) . . 772 II Man hire (C.A.) . v 7i;;j li. (iitdscl! h.'.A.i . , 77,0 If IF Ft a his i n (( ’. A.» . 712 .1 F I’eiers <( . A.) . „ c. 71 ■I A M 'Cullouglt (1..) . . 7,79 I [1 1 Idalv (1.,.» . > ,r,7 j <■ II Thompson (I, A . » i*,3 I IF WilMin <l. » . 1 , I F .1 15rad rock (!.. . „ ,0, 'in;: I . . „ 22 ; LYTTELTON. The results were: —- M A YOU A 171'Y. Snnill's Colonist Shop Hal! Total ! Snt ton . Fro* h rick Ernest 230 302 037 i l.estcr. William Thomas 105 370 7,20 Fosior. William Thomas Cl 180 211 , N orl on . Frederick •Ocorgc 30 90 132 j 1130 ' THE NEW MAYOR OF LYTTELTON. Mr I n derii k Hrri'*' t .-oiMon. ihp elected M . oi . : ; Mellon ••:. • ’ 1*« iat F' Mellon in 1 S.S<» ilc rcicivcrl ; hi ' due:’.! ion .• t the I. ■ i trl i< >n | n , >ug)i , F-'houl *>n leaving school he entered j (Fe e:nj,|o% •*f Kinsev, Barns and -ii.. • hip"".,:.: .•»;;'•! i- sMh > lio.iti ho \v a|. ! i«ci h» wa appoii itcd ‘"'.a! uianagrj- t.. r : ii- Zealand 1 1 ••n.pa.,- and. -(in sue- c dully

managing their business at Lyttelton for live years, he entered business on I his own account as a shipping agent, lie is a Past Provincial Grand Alaster of the Oddfellows’ Lodge, and trustee for the Lyttelton district. He is also secretary of the Lyttelton Permanent Building Society. ! Mr Sutton entered public life two 1 years ago. when he was elected a councillor. Ife is a member of the Old Colonists’ Association, through his mother, ■ who was Miss Sarah Graham. She arrived in Lyttelton in the Sir George Pollock, November, ISoS. COUNCIL. T. Hempstalk . . .1179 .V MacDonald . 1138 AY. Tov - .Till G. Morris ... J 057 AY. 1). Gower . . . 993 AY. R. Newton . . - 281 \Y. Wales .... 928 .1. R AYebb .... 910 M. .1 A! iHer . . - nU3 I). Grubb - - --8 m G. Whit lord . . - 013 MBonncl. Gower and Males. Mr D. Grubb was a member of the late conned. HARBOUR HOARD. M. J. W. W. Place. Miller. Toy. Coloni>l Hall . HI7 534 i Smith's shop - 207 282 \ Hall. New Brighton 61. •I----i Council Cham her. New Rugluon 312 232 ; Surf Pavilion. New Bright On 83 15 Afanchcs' ci S« reel 268 111 Sumner . 326 131 ! Reel if! - . . 266 Q 6 j Akaroa .171 12 | i Pigeon ll;iv Wainin . . j Ok a inks ... 5 2 ; L : I lr* Aka io.i I O Lo Ron® « 1 1 K a i i 11 n a Gchldes \'.-iliex . 1 6 ! T.. ole, . :i n I ' Puaho i l.ii 11/> Riv<*;- . 3 2 ' I Teddingfon . 6 9 Governors Bar .7. I 1 P'ir»u 1 Port l evy „ 16 16 Totals , 2234 1569 j NEW BRIGHTON. * I MAA'ORALTY Mr .1 Gamble (unopposed ). • OUN’CX L (ni nc scats). j .1 11 Shaw 757 i F. A. AX. Leaver 733 j H A G 1 asson 76t 17 Langford 707 I ' Scott 080 X AYard 667 R Gahagan 056 R Snell .. , ; 604 (elected l • A. «'coper 57£ A E Pur,- 504 X' Robins , 303 H. Robinson 503 LOAN PROPOSAL, A poll was taken on a. proposal to raise, a loan of £17.000 for a biidge at South Brighton. The -voling was For. ISO; against; 92; informal. S. X'he candidates returned thanks for

support accorded and the Mayor thanked the voters for returning all the members of the*old council who had stood for re-election. ! SUMNER. Mr \Y. H. Nicholson nas elcoterf nnopposed tor the Mayoralty. Follow'in;' ■ are the results of the council clec--11. W. Harris . . . 716 A. 11. Tut ill ... 6*21 A. TI olden .... 072 F. C. Cooper . . . AO “2 I R. I. Denham • • . 010 It. .T Ager ... o*2o j !•;. A. Johnson . . .016 i ( . M Roswell . . . 489 11. G. C’raws ha tv . - .170 T. It. Whitfield . . -107 . J. N. Thomas . . .11:1 I C. AV. Foster , . . 302 i .7. C. .M ’Donald . 201 i The lirst eight were elected. I RANGIORA. The result of the polling was--. MAYOR. R. M’ [n tosh . • 024 W. A. Rows© . . - 381 Informal . . . H COUNCIL. Dr r.. M. Allen . - 660 > Rev J. F. Fcron . , 036 j (. W. Tyler . . * 618 j F. Morrell . . • 082 R. 11. Hailey . . 06, C. I. Jennings . . 0-17 C. S. Avers . - 039 J. Linden - . Cl'J 3. Cathcrwood . . 389 (The foregoing were Ceded.) \\\ 1.. Murray • 319 ('. R. Th*.miles - 279 R V. . . 200 F. F. Jackson - • -’ll Tl A LF.HOLIDAY . Saturday . » Thursday „ , - 221 KAIAPOI. The returning officer. Mi J Bosom worth, announced the Imai results to a large gathering outside the council chambers, as follows: i Ob NCIL. \ M oore Of*.'* Or G. E Gillette 600 F T borne osr» I \V Barnard . 008 A rohnson 00; I Hirst 031 U W Winter ’*l7 Vv. H. Stark 008 R P i-.-.c 407 HALF-HOLIDAY. Thursday 407

Archer. Beanland. Flea her. H am le t 102 81 261 35 58 70 204 21 93 no 300 20 156 150 398 47 • 109 70 50 46 • 1393 138 280 68 187 137 309 41 • 117 109 244 28 1 19 58 137 14 • 241 131 •’71 42 143 36 53 14 , 251 65 99 11.9 nr, 62 1 15 13 . 133 54 89 lo 8-1 50 99 11 J 192 90 247 5 214 38 60 20 247 1.19 264 25 108 71 154 U 220 104 154 .13 .“>0 35 S3 5 60 43 71 8 60 16 26 1 140 46 42 12 ITS 59 6S 14 21 5 67 28 If) 321 93 9.1 20 193 47 92 17 107 25 39 3 30 38 16-4 7 120 * 121 559 20 37 34 72 6 60 61 187 15 59 34 130 14 94 60 103 8 70S 74 710 1.3 96 108 180 10 93 706 86 ,s 73 9 o 115 14 65 36 118 1 733 136 178 4(1 95 57 120 24 791 14.4 211 19 103 45 43 15 7 86 39 52 11 232 69 93 19 303 120 134 21 119 54 45 1 1 90 22 12 7 213 30 49 •; 358 107 7 75 33 500 147 164 42 302 160 187 12 164 .83 6.3 7 108 66 7.3 6 237 62 50 23 179 47 45 19 .135 32 24 10 90 63 134 0 0069 er 4409 1J16 7953 1 142